From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 25 5: 8:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EB6D37B406 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 05:08:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id IAA03941; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:07:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:07:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen To: "Eugene L. Vorokov" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel threads In-Reply-To: <200110250803.f9P83So32210@bugz.infotecs.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Eugene L. Vorokov wrote: > Hello, > > does FreeBSD currently have something similar to linux's kernel_thread() ? > Or is it what KSE intends to implement ? Can I somehow run "independent" > kernel thread, which will, for instance, check some flag that I set inside > interrupt handler and do some job that can't be done in the interrupt ? Others have pointed you at kthread(9), but if you're running -current, you might also want to checkout taskqueue(9) and ithread(9). -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message